--- title: 2 Kings 3:17 (JPS 1917) — For thus saith the LORD: Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see… · tree and pragmatics description: For thus saith the LORD: Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain, yet that valley shall be filled with water; and ye shall drink, both ye and your cattle and your beasts. Who acts: LORD, Ye. 2 Kings 3:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.65/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [2 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/) / [chapter 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/3/) / [3:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.3.17/) / JPS 1 # 2 Kings 3:17 · JPS 1917 For thus saith the LORD: Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain, yet that valley shall be filled with water; and ye shall drink, both ye and your cattle and your beasts. **Who acts:** LORD, Ye · **What happens:** say, not see, see, fill, drink · **To what, where:** wind, rain, valley, ye · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is 2 Kings 3:17 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (LORD, Ye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:2KI:65 # text = For thus saith the LORD: Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain, yet that valley shall be filled with water; and ye shall drink, both ye and your cattle and your beasts. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 thus thus ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 Ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 nsubj _ _ 8 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 11 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 16 cc _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 16 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 17 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 nsubj _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 both both CCONJ CC _ 34 cc:preconj _ _ 34 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **see** | shall | Ye | wind | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wind=Stimulus | | 3 | **see** | shall | ye | rain | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rain=Stimulus | | 4 | **fill** | shall · passive | | that valley | | | | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=Instrument | | 5 | **drink** | shall | ye | ye | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ye=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} כִּֽי־כֹ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה לֹֽא־תִרְא֥וּ ר֙וּחַ֙ וְלֹֽא־תִרְא֣וּ גֶ֔שֶׁם וְהַנַּ֥חַל הַה֖וּא יִמָּ֣לֵא מָ֑יִם וּשְׁתִיתֶ֛ם אַתֶּ֥ם וּמִקְנֵיכֶ֖ם וּֽבְהֶמְתְּכֶֽם׃ [2 Kings 3:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.3.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:2KI:65` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [2 Kings 3:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.64/) - next →: [2 Kings 3:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.66/) - ↑ back to [2 Kings 3:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.3.17/)